by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 14, 2017 | Compressor Stations
FH Guest column: The Buckingham Board of Supervisors’ approval of a special use permit for the proposed compressor station will not provide what Dominion has promised in economic security or jobs, nor does it protect the people of this county from woeful health and...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 12, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines
By now, you’ve likely heard that there is a fracked gas pipeline under construction through the Southeast U.S. In the wake of effective opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their allies at the Missouri River crossing in...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 12, 2017 | For Landowners
A group of landowners in West Virginia and Virginia are about to be put through an ordeal that will have long-lasting consequences for them. As proposals for three major natural gas pipelines solidify and go through the regulatory process, pipeline companies have...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 12, 2017 | Pipelines
A Native American tribe in Wisconsin has voted against renewing agreements allowing Enbridge Inc to use their land for a major crude oil pipeline, the latest sign of increasing opposition to North American energy infrastructure. The Bad River Band decided not to renew...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 12, 2017 | Pipelines
Cookie Cole, her face a portrait of grief and ire, flings toward the sky a handful of creek water. Award-winning documentary filmmaker and photographer Marino Colmano of Blacksburg captured the moment. Cole laments the risk that the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline...
